The problem of joblessness among teenagers is far more severe in poor, minority communities.
The gains were biggest among poor minority children, and that advantage continued for years to come.
But for poor students, especially poor minority ethnic students, charter schools bestowed substantial learning benefits.
And both have impressive orchestral programs featuring violins, a rarity in such poor, minority neighborhoods.
The judge agreed that many poor, minority students suffered from attending inadequate schools.
While there's some dispute over whether there's an ongoing education crisis for white, middle-class boys, there's no doubt that public schools are failing poor minority students in general and poor minority boys in particular.
The schools in question are filled with poor, minority and immigrant students, including many who are homeless.
For this obscures the real place where discrimination occurs: through woefully inadequate education for huge numbers of poor minority students.
It no longer strikes primarily gay white men -- traditional donors to the group -- but has moved into poor minority groups.
In poor, minority communities plagued with asthma, the neighborhood pharmacist is often the one dispensing pragmatic wisdom.
But critics say that community service is a blatantly unfair mandate to punish poor minority residents of public housing developments.
